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Tyan's beta 2.0 BIOS with APIC enabled got me up with SMP. Yeah!

I do show these errors in dmesg:

    ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
    ACPI-0175: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
    ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
    ACPI-0175: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
    ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
    ACPI-0175: *** Error: Method execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.HPET._STA] (Node 0xffffff00008edc00), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT


Digging through the list archives, it appears this is normal behavior and
will get minimized if I track -CURRENT.

Am I assuming correctly here?

-c

On 4/1/04 4:36 AM, "alan barrow" <alan.barrow@psineteurope.com> wrote:

> I know...
> 
> So have you tried the 2.0 bios ?
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:31, James R. Van Artsalen wrote:
>> alan barrow wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this a problem ? turn off APIC ?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>> The APIC is needed for SMP.  The fact that the other system shows no
>> APIC is probably related to the SMP problem.
>> 
> 
> 
>